Management

Strategy needs a sacrifice

1 September 2021

Strategy is one of those words that mean something different to different people. There is no one perfect definition, but we generally feel the difference between tactics and strategy. The definition...

Delegation is a skill

31 August 2021

Early in my PM career, I was working for a marketing agency. I was responsible for a newsletter that went out every Friday morning. It was consistently late. They needed...

Making a business case for legacy systems

30 March 2021

Before we invest, we make a business case. We put costs versus benefits, project it over time and when the value exceeds the costs in a relatively short period, we...

Being a manager in times of remote work

14 March 2020

Some people love to work remote. Others seem to hate it. While no borders are absolute, there seems to be a line that runs between those that produce and those...

Project Reporter

2 November 2019

In once joined a team as a project manager and one of the first things I noticed was the lack of testers. Every team member was a developer and while...

Cutting scope is the healthy option

4 October 2019

Scrum teams and their JIRA Backlog. Analysts and their Functional Requirements. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Yet we tackle software development by spelling out a list of...

Staffing on up

21 July 2019

The Mythical Man-month is 40 years old. It's a timeless classic for software development management and its pages are often condensed into Brooks's Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project...

Leaders, get help.

11 June 2019

Picking up sports when you're out of shape is uncomfortable. You really don't want to be the old guy with the beer belly in the gym. You don't want to...